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January 21st Wednesday syllabus; course assignments and organization; comments on poetry of period; basic metrics; handouts Carol Christ and Linda Hughes

January 26th Monday Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”; Hughes introduction

January 28th Wednesday Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children,” Carol Christ introduction

February 2nd Monday Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”

February 4th Wednesday Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”

Friday February 6th First Icon posting due 12 a. m.; should comment on Hughes or Christ articles

February 9th Monday Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel”

February 11th Wednesday Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Jenny”

February 16th Monday Pre-Raphaelite slides

February 18th Wednesday Augusta Webster, “The Castaway”

Friday February 20th Second Icon posting due; should comment on slides

February 23rd Monday Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses,” “The Lotus Eaters”

February 25th Wednesday Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” first half

March 2nd Monday Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” second half

March 4th Wednesday -------

Friday March 6th Title and bibliography of paper due

March 9th Monday Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” “In an Artist’s Studio,” “A Birthday,” “Remember,” “When I am Dead, My Dearest,” “Echo.”

March 11th Wednesday William Morris, “The Haystack in the Floods,” “The Defence of Guenevere”

Friday March 13th Third Icon posting due

March 16th and 18th spring break

March 23rd Monday slides William Morris and the decorative arts
First 6 page essay due

March 25th Wednesday Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” “A Summer Night,” “The Buried Life,” “Isolation: To Marguerite, Continued”

March 30th Monday visit to Special Collections

April 1st Wednesday working-class and dialect poets: Samuel Laycock and Janet  Hamilton (handout)

Friday April 3rd Fourth Icon posting due, should comment on Special Collections visit

April 5th Monday Algernon Swinburne, “The Triumph of Time,” “Hymn to Prosperpine”

April 8th Wednesday Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” “Carrion Comfort”

April 13th Monday Gerard Manley Hopkins, “No Worst, There is None,” “Felix Randall,” “Spring and Fall” (handout); “Binsey Poplars” (handout)

April 15th Wednesday Amy Levy, “Xantippe”

Friday April 17th Fifth Icon posting due

April 20th Monday fin de siècle: Lionel Johnson, “The Dark Angel” (handout), Mary Coleridge, “The Other Side of the Mirror,” “The White Women”

April 22nd Wednesday Rosamund Marriot Watson, “The Ballad of the Bird Bride,” “A Ballad of the Were-Wolf,” “The Open Door”

April 27th Monday A. E. Housman, selections from “The Shropshire Lad”

April 29th Wednesday Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
Friday May 1st Sixth Icon posting due

May 4th Monday Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush,” “Snow in the Suburbs,” “Afterwards” (handout); “Drummer Hodge”

May 8th Wednesday Charlotte Mew, “The Cenotaph,” “The Farmer’s Bride,” “The Trees are Down” (handout)

Exam week: final course meeting Monday May 11th or Tuesday May 12th (your choice); students will briefly summarize their papers.  

Please hand in the final draft of your take-home exam/essay in final form by Friday May 15th, 2015, accompanied by printouts of your ICON postings in a packet.